Howdy!
Well, here we are on the sixth day of the twelve days of Christmas! Are you still baking Christmas cookies? Must admit it’s this time, when I’m not so stressed getting everything ready for the big day, when I have the most fun in the kitchen.
The recipe I’m going to share with you today is an old recipe, passed down from our neighbor down the street when I was very little. It is one our family has loved for as long as I can remember. It is called Mom Johnson Cookies. My only addition to it is to use organic ingredients. Otherwise, it is the same and this recipe makes lots of cookies to fill up that cookie jar.
Mom Johnson Cookies
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup butter
2 eggs
1 cup sour milk (one can make this by adding 2 TBs vinegar to milk if you don’t have sour milk on hand)
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. vanilla
1 BIG tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
5 cups of flour
Optional: Red hots
Drop from teaspoon onto greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes. We always put a red-hot atop each cookie before baking.
Upon reading over the former posts, I’m going to get out my recipe cards and write down some of these recipes! They sound so good!
May the joy of these next few days in the twelve days of Christmas be yours and may the New Year be full of love, romance and lots of happy reading!
KAREN KAY aka GEN BAILEY is the multi-published author of American Indian Historical Romances. She has written for such prestigious publishers as AVON/HarperCollins, Berkley/Penguin/Putnam and Samhain Publishing. KAREN KAY’S great grandmother was Choctaw Indian and Kay is honored to be able to write about the American Indian Culture.
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These sound so delicious!
Happy Holidays!
Thank you for sharing the recipe.
Happy Holidays!
Happy New Year Karen! Thanks for sharing the recipe.
I am loving these recipes. Thanks.
I’ve only received 1 other email with a cookie recipe! I guess I better go hunting….
These sound easy and yummy!!!!
Good afternoon, Thank you so much for sharing this cookie recipe, they sound delicious! May you and your family have a Very Happy and Blessed New Year.
Thank you for the recipe. It sounds good and with the red hot it would be great for Valentine’s Day also. Also, thank you for the reference to sixth day of Christmas. It seems like a lot of people think Christmas is the twelfth rather than first day of Christmas.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing. I am adding it to my P & P cookbook.
I hope you had an enjoyable Christmas and have a wonderful 2025.
Hi Karen, What a Awesome recipe to try. Will add it to my collection. The fillies have a lot of recipes that sound delicious. Hope, you & your have had a blessed Christmas & a Happy New Year’s. Your reader.